10281 Quotes & Sayings

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If a man gives you bricks, build a house. If a man gives you a spear, hunt. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird. — Austin Mahone

Compassion may be called the fundamental of all good art because it alone can tell you what other beings feel and experience. Only compassion severs the bonds of your personal limitations, and gives you deep access into the inner life of the character you study, without which you cannot properly prepare it for the stage — Michael Chekhov

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge. — Herman Melville

A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness. — G.E.F. Neilson

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function. — Aristotle.

Stop searching and start revealing the treasures that reside inside of your heart. — Debasish Mridha

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough. — David Hockney

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us. — Ahmed Ben Bella

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion. — Paul Weller

About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make. — Geoff Tate

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. — Alexander Pope